Substitute for CD-ROM Boot Install
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Tue Dec 7 03:18:20 UTC 2004
Fred Clearwater writes:
> All:
>
> I'm trying to install FC2 on an older system that does not support booting
> from the CD-ROM (there is a CD-ROM that works for reads but not booting). In
> the past, I've been able to create a floppy boot disk to start the install
> process and then continue from the CD-ROM drive to finish the install of
> other Linux versions. Apparently the floppy is not an option for FC2
> according to what I've read due to kernel size. I read that there was a way
> to use a floppy to run grub to boot the system and then somehow access the
> CD-ROM to run the installation routine. I've got the system to boot up from
> a floppy with grub and leave me at the grub prompt on the system. I've tried
> copying the vmlinuz file from the CD-ROM to the hard drive and run that from
I presume this is the vmlinuz images from images/pxeboot.
If so, you also need to boot using initrd.img from the same directory.
Something like this.
title Installer
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz
initrd /initrd.img
As the saying goes: your partitions may vary…
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